Windows 10: Text, arrows, and such on images in Windows 10

Greetings All,

I just put my final Apple product on eBay. Making the complete switch to Windows. Got myself an Asus VivoMini i5 with 512SSD, 8GBs of RAM, and a 2Kish 25 inch monitor. My price with 3 year coverage? $1149ish.

Apple price for similar? $2300. Bah-bye Apple. Nice knowing you all these decades. Maybe if Tim goes and prices come back to our planet I'll visit again. Until then -- seeya.

Okay. I've been using macOS forever and so sometimes the simplest question occurs to me. Y'all know the answer because it's the Windows way. But I don't.

Suppose I have an image. And I want to put text on it, arrows pointing at things, and circles around things. What would most Windows users use? Paint? Powerpoint? Some other app I haven't a clue about?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. By the by Powerpoint is not an option. My wife and I use LibreOffice. She wants to drop said adjusted images into Calc (Excel).

So what do people use?

:)

 

Adding text to a picture

I have downloaded an image from the internet and now want to add some text to it.

When I open the image I see a rectangle at the bottom of the screen which contains a trash bin and back and forward arrow icons. I cannot see how to remove them. If I use screen grab to copy the image the black rectangle is copied too.

How can I add text to a picture without the back/forward arrows appearing in the picture?

Thank you

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Small text and images on Programs

Hi community,

I have recently upgraded to Windows 10 and a setting has changed. The desktop icons appear to be their normal size, however when I enter a program that is not Microsoft the text size vastly reduces to about font size 5. There is no Advanced display settings,
from what I have read it has been taken out of the Windows build I have (?).

Can anyone help me by advising how to increase the text size in programs?

Thanks

 

I use Paint.net or Photoshop for doing that. Paint.Net is free and it has a great tool for that see the image below:
I use this for the arrows for text I use PS

 

My top picks:

- Windows Paint

- Greenshot:

Greenshot

- Screenpresso:

Screenpresso: The Ultimate Screen Capture Tool for Windows

Jing:

Screen Capture Software | Snagit | TechSmith

 

This is funny. As a new Windows user I remembered that most of my Facebook friends are also PC users. I've lived decades without going to friends for Mac help because, well -- so few used and even fewer were fluent.

So a friend suggested SNAGIT. Sounded great until I saw $50 price. WHOA. So I got all Google-ish and asked for alternatives. #2 was GREENSHOT. The funny part is --

-- I just installed it two days ago. Why? Snipping Tool has it's merits and such but dang I just wanted an OS X like solution for lightening fast screencaps. Not only can GREENSHOT be set up to do the classic Mac three finger command, but then I realized I could just use the PrintScreen button on my keyboard. One finger and I get the magic resizable triangle, CAMERA SOUND, boom it's on my desktop. In the format and size I like.

So to discover this same tool can also do some basic arrows and text stuff? Too cool for school.